2026/2027 season

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Bournemouth
Head coach: Marco Rose · 4-2-3-1. Vérifié : schéma explicitement indiqué par les feuilles de match Sky Sports lors des deux journées, avec un onze identique — Petrović ; Adam Smith, Hill, António Silva, Truffert ; Cook, Scott ; Rayan (inscrit « R Simplício Rocha »), Kluivert, Tavernier ; Evanilson.
Rank
19th
Pts
3
P
6
Form
🟠 Poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
5/10
Attack
1/10
Defence
2/10
Form
4/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Low

19th with 3 pts from 6 matches: 0 wins, 3 draws, 3 defeats.

7 goals scored, 13 conceded.

Good afternoon and welcome to the live narration of the Premier League football game facing the Bournemouth against the Sunderland for Day 7. From the Sports World, we offer you all the coverage minute to minute, the previous, the alignations, the best games and goals of the encounter and the result with all the reactions to the post match.

Mundo Deportivo · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Scott suffered a thigh injury whilst on international duty with England and had looked like being out for up to eight weeks

The Independent — Football · 16 Oct 2026

After running out of minutes at the continental premiere in front of the Bournemouth, Pellegrino Matarazzo gave him ownership on the right side of a small revolution in Belgium.

Mundo Deportivo · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

It was a night 127 years in the making as Bournemouth added another chapter to their fairytale with victory in their first-ever European home game.

BBC Sport · 16 Oct 2026

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Chelsea FC (A) · 1-5
Lvs Liverpool FC (H) · 0-1
Dvs Brentford FC (H) · 2-2
Dvs Newcastle United FC (A) · 2-2
Dvs Everton FC (H) · 1-1
DDDLLL
7 scored / 13 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
0W - 2D - 1L
Away form
0W - 1D - 2L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.2
Goals conceded per match
2.2
At home
3 scored · 4 conceded in 3 matches
Away
3 scored · 7 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
3 of 5
Both teams score
4 of 5
Clean sheets
0 of 5
Failed to score
1 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Bournemouth play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1. Vérifié : schéma explicitement indiqué par les feuilles de match Sky Sports lors des deux journées, avec un onze identique — Petrović ; Adam Smith, Hill, António Silva, Truffert ; Cook, Scott ; Rayan (inscrit « R Simplício Rocha »), Kluivert, Tavernier ; Evanilson.
Philosophy
Sky Sports (23/08/2026) describes Marco Rose as “a pupil of Jürgen Klopp” who carries on Andoni Iraola's high pressing while adding a personal touch: Evanilson moved into a false nine role, with Rayan, Ben Doak or Justin Kluivert running in behind him. Note: this is a pundit's analysis published before the first league match, not a statistical finding on the current season.
Attacking strengths
2 goals in 2 matchdays (Marcus Tavernier 26' at Manchester City, Alex Scott 41' against Everton), i.e. one goal per match and the opening goal in each of the two fixtures. Sky Sports noted 21 goals scored during pre-season and points out that Rose's Borussia Dortmund had broken its league goalscoring record with 85 goals.
Defensive solidity
3 goals conceded in 2 matchdays, but above all two goals conceded in stoppage time or late in the match: Marc Guéhi (84') and Joško Gvardiol (90+2') at Manchester City, then James Tarkowski (90+1') against Everton after a poorly cleared corner. Đorđe Petrović was decisive against Everton with several saves, including a double save in the 20th minute.
Pressing
High pressing claimed in continuity with Iraola, whose side had produced the 3rd highest number of direct attacks in the Premier League last season (Sky Sports, 23/08/2026). No measured pressing data for the two 2026-27 matchdays could be verified.
Transitions
Direct attacks and wingers running in behind around a false nine, according to the Sky Sports analysis of 23/08/2026; not confirmed by match data for the current season.
StrengthAn already settled starting eleven (the same eleven starters on both matchdays), a goalkeeper in good form, attacking quality capable of opening the scoring at the Etihad, and the historic momentum of a first European campaign. The club kept hold of Alex Scott despite interest from Chelsea.
WeaknessInability to see matches out: 5 points dropped in two matchdays after taking the lead, with two goals conceded in the 84th/90+2nd minute and then in the 90+1st. Rose acknowledged it in Manchester: “The game is never over here, you have to defend for five or six minutes longer”. Added to that are four long-term absentees and a squad drain — more than £250m of value lost in one season under Iraola, according to Sky Sports.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Ambivalent, but lifted by the staff's message. A single point from two matchdays and two cruel scenarios, including James Tarkowski's equaliser in stoppage time, weigh on the points return. Marco Rose nonetheless continues to defend the content, judging the performance genuinely good in most phases of play, and he publicly thanked the crowd for the welcome given to his home debut. The attacking injury list, with Kroupi and Adli unavailable, explains part of the lack of cutting edge. The trip to Newcastle, where the club are unbeaten in four visits since 2022, is presented as an opportunity rather than a trap.
Coach / players / board relationship
Marco Rose was appointed on 20/04/2026 on a three-year contract to replace Andoni Iraola (source: Wikipedia, the club's 2026-27 season page, in a version predating the season — the information could not be cross-checked against a second open source). Rose publicly aligned himself with the board by saying he was confident Alex Scott would stay despite interest from Chelsea.
Mood with the supporters
The mood is buoyant and rests on two concrete things. First the unprecedented European campaign: this season the club will play its very first continental competition, with an eight-matchday Europa League schedule now published, including AC Milan at the Vitality Stadium on 22 October. Then the welcome given to Marco Rose on his home debut, which the head coach made a point of acknowledging publicly, saying he was grateful for the warm reception and happy to be coaching this team. No protest movement is reported by the sources consulted, and the decision to keep Rayan, Kroupi and Alex Scott despite offers was read as a signal of ambition.
Pressure on the head coach
Low, and for now cloudless. Marco Rose has taken charge of only two league matches, lost or drawn to late goals, and no source consulted suggests the slightest question over his position. On the contrary, the board gave him the means he asked for, refusing to sell his best players and adding an international goalkeeper and a Champions League-calibre centre-back. The context of a first European campaign also offers a horizon beyond the league table. The real demand will come if the team are still without a win after the trip to Newcastle and the visit of Brentford.
Club objectives
No official numerical objective has been announced by the club, but the trajectory is legible. For the first time in its history the club is in a European competition, with an eight-match Europa League schedule now dated, from Real Sociedad on 17 September to Hapoel Beer-Sheva on 28 January. Sky Sports considers the window was run to cope with that twin front, judging that Bournemouth had the best market of the league with a mark of 9 out of 10, thanks to keeping their key players and making targeted additions. In the league, the immediate urgency is more prosaic: turning content judged satisfactory into first points.
Recent internal tensions
No tension reported at this stage by the sources consulted. One transfer window matter remained open without becoming a conflict: Marco Rose said he was confident Alex Scott would not be sold to Chelsea (BBC Sport headline noted on 27/08 via the Football Web Pages aggregator, article not opened; the Sky Sports analysis of 23/08 confirms that Scott was kept despite interest from the top six).
Absences
InjuredAmine Adli — Calf injury, return estimated around 20 September.
InjuredJulian Araujo — Thigh problem, not expected before the second half of November.
InjuredEli Junior Kroupi — Foot injury, return estimated in early November.
InjuredVeljko Milosavljević — Knee injury, with no return date given.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Bournemouth — Sunderland

At homeSunday 18 October at 15:00Matchday 7
It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
  • Bournemouth - Sunderland, en directo | Premier LeagueGood afternoon and welcome to the live narration of the Premier League football game facing the Bournemouth against the Sunderland for Day 7. From the Sports World, we offer you all the coverage minute to minute, the previous, the alignations, the best games and goals of the encounter and the result with all the reactions to the post match.Mundo Deportivo · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
Prediction
EstimateBournemouth — Sunderland
46 %
1 · Bournemouth
24 %
X · draw
30 %
2 · Sunderland
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Bournemouth, 6 matches by Sunderland. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 189 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.45 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Bournemouth — attack7 in 6 matches0.800.90
    Bournemouth — defence13 in 6 matches1.491.25
    Sunderland — attack6 in 6 matches0.690.84
    Sunderland — defence12 in 6 matches1.381.19
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Bournemouth and 0.50 for Sunderland. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.42 goal scored on average by the host against 1.42 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.00; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.00. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Bournemouth at home: 0.67 pts/match versus 0.50 overall over 3 matches → ×1.091
    Sunderland away: 0.33 pts/match versus 0.67 overall over 3 matches → ×0.880
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λBournemouth = 1.45 × 0.90 × 1.19 × 1.00 × 1.091 = 1.70
    λSunderland = 1.45 × 0.84 × 1.25 × 0.880 = 1.34
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 45.9%, draw 23.7%, away win 30.4% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 10.9%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Đorđe Petrović
  • Will Dennis
  • Michele Di Gregorio
Defenders
  • Adam SmithC
  • James Hill
  • António Silva
  • Adrien Truffert
  • Bafodé Diakité
  • Julián Araujo
  • Veljko Milosavljević
Midfielders
  • Lewis Cook
  • Alex Scott
  • Tyler Adams
  • Ryan Christie
  • Marcus Tavernier
  • Alex Tóth
Forwards
  • Evanilson
  • Justin Kluivert
  • Rayan
  • Ben Doak
  • David Brooks
  • Daniel Jebbison
  • Álvaro Rodríguez
  • Eli Kroupi
  • Amine Adli
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: Reconstructed from the official Sky Sports team sheets for Manchester City - Bournemouth (23/08/2026) and Bournemouth - Everton (29/08/2026), supplemented by the Football Web Pages 2026-27 appearances page and the Premier Injuries injury list (30/08/2026). This is NOT the complete official first-team squad list but the set of players named on a team sheet or listed as injured. The breakdown by position follows the order of the Sky team sheets. Adam Smith wore the armband on both matchdays. Rayan is listed as “R Simplício Rocha” (no. 37) by Sky and as “Rayan” by Football Web Pages. Two named substitutes (“J Sanchez” on 23/08, “J Soler” on 29/08) were not classified for lack of reliable identification. Michele Di Gregorio only appears on the bench on 29/08..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Bournemouth - Sunderland, live - 124; Premier League
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss16 Oct 2026
Alex Scott injury not as bad as Bournemouth feared, says Marco Rose
Source: The Independent — Football
rss16 Oct 2026
Minus 17 to European dreams as Bournemouth fairytale continues
Source: BBC Sport
rss15 Oct 2026
Evanilson, Rayan and Rodríguez goals seal Bournemouth’s historic home win in Europe
Source: The Guardian — Football
rss15 Oct 2026
Bournemouth is already planning a €100M sale for winter mercato
Source: Foot Mercato
rss15 Oct 2026
Bournemouth - Sturm Graz, live - 124; Europa League
Source: Mundo Deportivo
Result3 Sep 2026
The table as it stood before matchday 3 puts Bournemouth 14th on one point, with two goals scored and three conceded in two matches.
Source: Sky Sports
Injury3 Sep 2026
The attack is depleted: Amine Adli has a calf problem with a return estimated around 20 September and Eli Junior Kroupi, with a foot injury, is not expected before November.
Source: SportsGambler
Club2 Sep 2026
Matchday 3 sends Bournemouth to St James' Park on Saturday 5 September at 12:30, to an unbeaten Newcastle; the Cherries are unbeaten in four visits to that ground since September 2022.
Source: VAVEL
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Sky Sports give Bournemouth the best transfer-window mark in the league, 9 out of 10: the club kept Rayan, Eli Junior Kroupi and Alex Scott despite significant interest, added goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio and centre-back António Silva, while keeping the financial discipline the European campaign requires.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers2 Sep 2026
The detailed summer window published by VAVEL confirms the scale of investment in defence and attack: António Silva for £21.4m from Benfica, Álvaro Rodríguez for £21.33m from Elche, Alex Jiménez for £16m from AC Milan and Juanlu Sánchez for £9.4m from Sevilla, while Marcos Senesi left on a free to Tottenham, Hamed Traoré to Marseille for £6.5m and Luis Sinisterra to Cruzeiro for £5.2m.
Source: VAVEL
Club1 Sep 2026
No Bournemouth move features among the transfers confirmed on deadline day, the club having closed the summer window without a late deal.
Source: Sky Sports
European competition29 Aug 2026
The full schedule of the first European campaign in the club's history is confirmed: Real Sociedad away on 17 September, Sturm Graz at home on 15 October, AC Milan at home on 22 October, Sparta Prague away on 5 November, Celta Vigo away on 26 November, Viktoria Plzeň at home on 10 December, Lillestrøm away on 21 January and Hapoel Beer-Sheva at home on 28 January.
Source: Sky Sports
Result29 Aug 2026
Bournemouth were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Everton on 29 August and have a single point after two matchdays, following the 2-1 defeat at Manchester City on the opening day.
Source: worldfootball.net
Other29 Aug 2026
Bournemouth 1-1 Everton on matchday 2: Alex Scott opens the scoring in the 41st minute, James Tarkowski equalises at 90+1 after a poorly cleared corner, on Marco Rose's first home appearance in the Premier League.
Source: Sky Sports
Institutional29 Aug 2026
The Europa League league phase fixture list is confirmed: the first European campaign in the club's history, with a trip to Real Sociedad on 17/09 followed by hosting AC Milan on 22/10.
Source: Sky Sports
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.